Psalm 12:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁸ The wicked walk on every side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ The wicked walk on every side, When the vilest men are exalted.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ The wicked walk or prowl about on every side, as vileness is exalted [and baseness is rated high] among the sons of men.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ The wicked walk on every side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

Common English Bible

⁸ The wicked roam all over the place, while depravity is praised by human beings.

Psalm 12:8 Cross References

Job 30:8

They are children of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land.

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler hearkeneth to falsehood, All his servants are wicked.

Daniel 11:21

And in his place shall stand up a contemptible person, to whom they had not given the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in time of security, and shall obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgement; because he was content to walk after the command.

Micah 6:16

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels: that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing; and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.